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<\/a>tennis express pro player gear<\/p>\nOne thing the Aussie\u2019s name is not synonymous with, however, is power.<\/p>\n
De Minaur has often been labeled as a guy that can be pushed around on the court due to his physical limitations (6\u2032 150-lbs, if you\u2019re scoring at home). And, in the past that has been true. De Minaur has hit the wall against the ATP\u2019s power brokers, and run out of gas late in majors, where he is 0-5 in Slam quarterfinals.<\/p>\n
But things are changing, says De Minaur.<\/p>\n
After he defused bomb-serving Alexander Bublik in his round of 16 match, the Aussie talked about his ability to better cope with power.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m just showing the people that I have improved, right?\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019ve got more to give.<\/p>\n
\u201cI got tired of the narrative that these big hitters can take the racquet out of my hands. Yeah, over the years I have kept on improving. I have kept on getting more and more out of myself.\u201d<\/p>\n
De Minaur, who will face Carlos Alcaraz for the sixth time on Day 10 (0-5 lifetime) in quarterfinal action, says that he\u2019s been working hard to ensure that he doesn\u2019t get bullied around the court by top players.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of the things I have been constantly wanting to get to is exactly that, when I\u2019m playing big hitters, not be a punching bag for them ultimately and really show them that I can go toe-to-toe with them and actually dictate and get them moving,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s the most effective way to play these big guys.<\/p>\n
\u201cUltimately, I\u2019m very happy that I\u2019m able to execute that. The last couple of matches [have been] some of the best ball striking I have had here at the AO. So very, very pleased with that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex de Minaur. Indefatigable. The two words are practically synonyms. The No.1 Aussie\u2019s name, when mentioned in tennis…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-438366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}